Case study: Turso[1]
Rewrite the open source SQLite in Rust under an MIT license[2].
Of course, once you complete the core product, there is the extended ecosystem to consider.
[1] https://turso.tech/blog/introducing-limbo-a-complete-rewrite...
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Rewrite the open source SQLite in Rust under an MIT license[2].
Of course, once you complete the core product, there is the extended ecosystem to consider.
[1] https://turso.tech/blog/introducing-limbo-a-complete-rewrite...
While the ersatz realms of AI regress to the mean, religious traditions chug on, bringing joy to adherents.
Find your community of faith.
I'm going to go through https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs as well as https://www.masteringemacs.org/
Suggestions welcome.
So, visually in Greek, pi=2*tau would seem an improvement.
Oh, well.
I wish I'd had better tools for budgeting and retirement accounts.
This argument would have much more heft if it discussed 401k accounts and financial planning.
So now I have a surprise deep-dive to make this thing usable.
It's a Nietszchean Bargain: that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Sure, but the pojt here is that if we say "Write in X" we generally understand it to mean "Treat X like a standard and don't get too colloquial with the stylings."
Pedantry is worthwhile, but it can be a diminishing returns game.
Surf the chaos, bro.
The learning curve is not too vertical on the established components, but stand by on the New Shiny.
That is, you may well get sucked down a rabbit hole in order to accomplish a simple task.
But a montage about weight lifting does not a body builder make.
- trades
- military service
...or some blend of the two, i.e. SeaBees or Army Corps of Engineers.
White collar/tech chops are fine as far as they go, but know how to swing a hammer or turn a wrench, say I.
Eschew debt; remain sober; stay married (not in the modern, ersatz sense); be a productive member of the community of faith.
Ain't no magic.
Would Coleridge have delivered "Kublai Khan" without dope?
The answer is ambiguous, but I'll take sobriety, thank you.
Eccl7:13 "Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?"
and it came back with:
Ecclesiastes 7:12-15 For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it. Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which he has made crooked? In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him. All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.
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Academic literature (AL) predates the social media (SM) of recent decades. AL identifies and preserves human knowledge across time, space, language, andexperience level.
These implicit "goals" contrast with SM's emphasis on the present moment, colloquial focus, idiomatic word choice, and general disregard for larger context beyond the. Therefore, when engaged in producing AL, a detached mindset seems helpful.
One enters a discourse with people across the ages who were soberly adding to the sum of human knowledge, not pursuing SM "likes", and not regressing to the mean of some Artificial Intelligence corpus. AL seeks to cover the prior art, to honor those who came before, to minimize duplication of effort, and to filter the "novelty" out of ideas by detailing their pedigree.
The writing style of AL targets a reader half a century in the future of unknown gender, nationality, and depth within either the topic or with the English language itself.
Therefore, the writing style needs to favor:
- Simplicity in word choice. Archaic words or definitions, however valid, are not preferred. Two or three shorter words is often easier on that unknown reader.
- Linearity in development. No dramatic tension. Set the ideas in front of the reader and move through them in order.
- Connectedness. The chain of the ideas is obvious as we move from one to the next, so that reiterating to remember the current topic is less necessary.
- Cohesiveness. A paragraph should almost stand on its own, because it contains enough information to make its point even if quoted within another article.
AI is regression to the mean.
Much like Socialism.
Om an acute basis, AI can be just as helpful as that safety net.
As a chronic matter, "it's not excellence--it's mediocrity".
But consider how cursive is dying out in (at least American) English, and how many centuries of writing will become unintelligible to the casual reader as a result.
All of these important cultural artifacts require maintenance.
The proveability itself seems based upon assumption.
This invites the question of whether assumptions have assumed the role of anti-matter.